just did apt-get mesag-dev. still the same thing: Now Making glut extend module make[1]: Entering directory `/var/installs/opengl' gcc -fPIC -g -O2 -fPIC -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-linux -I. -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -c -o glut.o glut.c make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/installs/opengl' glut.c:8: GL/glut.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [glut.o] Error 1 make: *** [glut.so] Error 2 ~transami On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 12:01, Dossy wrote: > On 2002.07.12, Tom Sawyer <transami / transami.net> wrote: > > can any one give me some help installing the opengl interface library? i > > downloaded it and ran the extconf.rb script which created the makefile, > > i think next i type make? but it complains that it can't find GL/glut.h. > > i'm running debian, and i did apt-get install mesag3 and apt-get source > > mesag3 already, as i thought i would need to. help? > > Do you have mesag-dev installed? "-dev" packages in Debian typically > contain the files required for doing development, such as header files > and such. > > -- Dossy > > -- > Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy / panoptic.com > Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ > "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own > folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) > -- ~transami "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin